[FFmpeg-devel] Problem logging feature request/patch on bug?tracker.

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Wednesday 2009-01-28 22:34:11 +1030, Rodney Baker encoded:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:58:54 Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:32:42PM +1030, Rodney Baker wrote:
> > > This suppresses all screen output because everything is written to
> > > stderr. I only want to suppress the banner and still have the stream
> > > data, progress, completion report and error messages displayed during
> > > conversion.
> >
> > Use e.g.
> > ffmpeg 2>&1 | tail -n +7
> 
> Reimar,
> 
> I've now done some further testing and found 2 things; first, I needed to 
> change +7 to +10 and second, I now see the conversion progress update only 
> every 40 seconds or so (it only seems to show every 10th update), so it is not 
> as clean a fix as I'd hoped for.
> 
> How hard would it be to add a command line parameter (or an additional 
> verbosity setting) to suppress the call to show_banner() in ffmpeg.c? I'd do 
> it myself but I really don't know what I'm doing. I'd be prepared to try it if 
> someone could give me some useful hints of what needed to be changed.

The problem is that the ff* tools show the banner *before* to parse
the options, so there is no way to tell them not to show the banner
with an option (this could be done, but IMHO it's not worth the
complexity it adds).

But I think that there should be a better scripting solution for that
(how to force a sed/head/whatever to write in output every time it
encounters a newline?).
 
> BTW, where can I find a definition of the settings for the -verbose option? 
> The web site documentation and the man page both say "-v number : Set the 
> logging verbosity level" without actually specifying what the acceptable range 
> for <number> is, how many levels there are or what each level presents...

Range is -10 - +10, documentation patch is welcome and maybe we should
use av_log() in the CLI tools too...

> Regards,

Regards.
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